Indonesia on Wednesday (July 13) started delivering frozen chicken to Singapore, a move that will allow the Republic to diversify its chicken sources after its major supplier Malaysia banned exports early last month.
As much as 50,000kg of frozen chicken from integrated poultry company Charoen Pokphand Indonesia (CPI) is set to depart from Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta on Wednesday evening. They are estimated to arrive in Singapore on Friday and be handled by Crown Pacific Beverage, the CPI's trading partner.
The shipment came after the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) approved Indonesia as Singapore's new source of frozen, chilled and processed chicken meat to the Republic on June 30. Chicken from three establishments run by CPI and Ciomas Adisatwa, a subsidiary of publicly-listed Japfa Comfeed Indonesia, can be imported.
CPI expects to deliver 1,000 tonnes of frozen chicken in total gradually throughout this year to Singapore, in line with its business-to-business contract, its president commissioner Tjoe Hadi Gunawan said during the ceremony on Wednesday.
"We have high hopes that the exports will run well and sustainably, and (with) further increase," he said, adding that the exports are expected to bring a better outlook for Indonesia's poultry industry amid the global food crisis.
The 1,000 tonne contract is worth 40 billion rupiah (S$3.8 million), said Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo, who was present in the ceremony on Wednesday.
Besides Singapore, CPI has also exported chicken and chicken products to Japan, Timor-Leste, Papua Guinea, and Qatar.
Source: The Straits Times
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<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
